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💬 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒉𝒐𝒍 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒉𝒐𝒍 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒓𝒖𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒓𝒖𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔. (𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰)

Photo ctrdit; Joseph Llanesm , Cover of From Addiction To Recovery

♦️ Brian said this in an interview with 𝑽𝒊𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒏 𝑹𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒐 𝑰𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂 during the promotion of 𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆, answering to the question: "𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 ?". It's no longer a secret ! Addiction is a subject that is close to 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜's heart and Brian has often spoken about it in his lyrics since the beginning of the band's career.


📍 Going further in the interview, he speaks his words:

💬 I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol because alcohol is a very addictive drug and it ruins families and it ruins relationships. And it is socially acceptable and it is easy to find. Controlled substances, other drugs are more difficult to get. And it's a crime to buy them. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑐𝑜ℎ𝑜𝑙 𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒. And if you are unfortunate enough to become addicted to it, it can be disastrous. And there is still 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑔𝑚𝑎 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑙𝑐𝑜ℎ𝑜𝑙 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙. An addict is perceived as being somebody of weak moral fiber. But the fact of the matter is that the World Health Organization has classified addiction as a disease and there are statistics on this. On the planet, on average, one person out of ten is addicted to something, whether it's alcohol, illegal drugs, sugar, sex, pornography... The list goes on and on and on and on. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑦. And I don't believe that until we take this stigma away from it that people can really get the help that they need. Because 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒. If somebody gets cancer, nobody goes: "Hey it's your fault man". And it's exactly the same thing with addiction.We have a a comedian and an actor in the UK called 𝑹𝒖𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅. He's quite famous and ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑏𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒-𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑔𝑚𝑎 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦. And I have a great deal of respect for him for that matter and he's very very very funny.
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 𝘢𝘵 𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘰 𝘐𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢 - 2013)


♦️ Russell Brand did an awareness campaign on this ? If Brian mentions him, he's worth looking into.

🔸 𝑹𝒖𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅 is an English comedian, actor, and radio host. He used to be an addict of alcohol, various drugs and heroin with which he admitted he "fell 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡 - 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑤𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑏." (𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯)

📍 After the death of singer and friend 𝐴𝑚𝑦 𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑒ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒, Russell decided to get clean. His winning method being 0 drugs, he began to campaign to the authorities, doctors and hospitals to make it clear that addicts should no longer be treated as weak people, but as sick people who need medical attention.


🔸 𝑹𝒖𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒍'𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑨𝒎𝒚 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆'𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉, which was a turning point in his fight against the stigma of addictions 📖 https://bit.ly/3GPE7Ng 📕


🔸 '𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 ' 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲

📖 In his documentary, Brand challenges the system currently in use to treat addicts in Britain. His passionate, honest and eye-opening opinions on what needs to change is captivating. When Amy Winehouse died, a friend of his at the time, he realized he needed to stop taking drugs. He was told that if he kept up his lifestyle of daily drug use he would either be dead, in jail or in an insane asylum within 6 months. By the time he was 27, the same age Amy Winehouse died, Russell Brand was clean.

The method he took was an abstinence program. It worked for him but as we find out, only 10% of addicts are treated this way. Instead, the root of the issue is ignored and the government prescribes methadone to the addicts instead of drugs such as heroin and this way they are taking a legal drug with a prescribed amount. As Brand argues, this is not making the addicts any less of addicts just because they are now on a legal government authorized drug. In fact, addicts will always crave a high and therefore the prescribed amount of methadone will simply keep them too stable; addicts are going to continue taking their drugs. Though methadone is supposed to stop needle use and lower HIV from being spread, it is not addressing the true disease and condition that is addiction. Addiction should be being addressed as a health issue not a judicial or criminal issue. Russell Brand talks to a scientist who is leading research into the brain and how it relates and is affected by addiction. He also talks to doctors and addicts themselves giving us an in depth look at addiction. 📕
(𝘥𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯.𝘤𝘰𝘮)

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📍 𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒚:

💬 We need to start regarding addiction in all its forms as a health issue as opposed to a judicial and criminal issue. (𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭 𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥)


💬 It's a greedy disease. It'll take everything. First, it will take your money, then it'll take your friends and it will take your family, your car, your house, then it's gonna take bits of your body and I used to near be scoring with people that have eyes missing, limbs missing. It takes everything. (𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭 𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥)

𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑨𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑻𝒐 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒚 (2012)
🎥 https://bit.ly/3FEGtgs (2012)


♦️ Throughout Placebo's career, Brian has often had to answer questions about drug use. It seems that 2006 was a wake-up call that the 'sex, drugs and rock'n'roll' lifestyle could cost him his life.

💬 What I realized while writing this song (𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘰 𝘚𝘢𝘺 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘣𝘺𝘦) is that the world really doesn't need another dead rockstar.
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 𝘢𝘵 𝘔6 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘙𝘰𝘤𝘬 - 2006)

Photo credit: . Erik Weiss

💬 The theme of Song To Say Goodbye is keeping only the best aspects of your life. It's the first track I wrote in India. I went there for a lot of reasons, one of them being to try and change my lifestyle. I wanted to make me understand that I should not become a rock'n'roll cliché and that the world doesn't need another dead rock star. I've written it as a letter to myself.
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘙𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘔𝘢𝘨 - 𝘈𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘭 2006)

𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒐 𝑺𝒂𝒚 𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒃𝒚𝒆
🎥 https://bit.ly/33tqqVS 🎵


💬 When I started working on this record, I only had two subjects to write about: love and addiction. I don't want to follow the path of Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix or Kurt Cobain. Or even worse: Pete Doherty. I've also always had a problem with the glorification of addicted rock stars. A junkie in the gutter is a junkie in the gutter. But I can't deny it: I had also taken that dead-end road - one day I realized there was a chance I might be the next rock casualty.
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘰 - 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 2006)


𝑾𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆: "𝒊𝒇 𝒊 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒚𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒊𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆." ?

💬 I wasn't expecting that ! 2006.

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 ?

💬 Just what happened to everybody who finds himself locked up in a cell called addiction. Your entire life is taken over and you cannot function whatsoever without a certain substance.

𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 ?

💬 I'm still changing.It's a day-to-day thing. That's something I've learned.
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 𝘢𝘵 𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘰 6 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 - 2016)


♦️ Dear Soulmates, I am aware that today's topic is serious. But beyond the musical aspects of Placebo, there's always a subject to dig into, whether it's personal turmoils, unfortunate stories, the world being run by trigger-happy clowns... But mostly there have been stories directly or indirectly revolving around drugs.

📍 Brian has repeatedly addressed the damaging effects of drugs and alcohol. The most obvious being the 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒔 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 which describes the loss of self-control when under the influence of substances.


💬 Meds is about losing yourself, not recognising yourself. You feel lost, hopeless, and you don't know what you think, what you really feel. It's a very disturbing feeling for me and for everyone else, and I wanted to express it.
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘙𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘔𝘢𝘨 - 2006)

𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒔 🎥 https://bit.ly/3ApmRfm 🎵


♦️ I'll end this post with a quote from Russell Brand, taken from his speech for his 19th sober anniversary in December 2021. Congrats to him !


Hopefully it will help people here or around you if you find yourself in this situation.

"𝐈 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲. 𝐈 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮. 𝐈 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞."

🎥 https://bit.ly/35cFdop

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